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haven’t used xvid in like 20 years. do still have some old ‘archives’ though.

because the average user is kinda dumb, kinda impatient, and some of those ads and banners on google properties peddling chrome were very scary to them… that they’d lose, or miss-out on something in, youtube or google or their gmail.

i just start with the basic rule of: whatever they want or suggest or default to, the opposite is probably what should be configured or answered instead.

youtube, google, gmail. all better platform to market from than your desktop os. plus google spent a ton of money on mainstream ads, and had the perfect place on those aforementioned platforms to peddle their own and at no cost to them. and google is far from innocent here… they’ve bullshitted their way to the top of the browser game and pull similar stunts as microsoft does.

and a lot of ie’s bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.

which one?

and that’s where my 1000s of bookmarks came from.

random junk goes in private windows. but stuff i might want a history of (research or work related, for instance) to go back later for, stays on the normal window and history.

there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.

https://www.pcsforpeople.org/ is another organization with low-cost internet for low income households. they some have hardware, too. they’ve expanded a lot since their first location opened in minnesota in 1998. (note: i am not affiliated with them, i just occasionally refer people to them)

they were, for months, literally giving the hardware away. no hardware cost. no recurring fees. just 20 bucks for shipping, then the whatever for the actual internet plan itself. a flat $80/mo i think the lowest cost one was. i have a few users on it that bought into that deal. i think it was just before the ipo where they started tacking-on an extra monthly fee.

the company exists just as a frozen foods company, but is now owned by a south korean conglomerate. when schwans was sold to cj in 2019, the home delivery business was spun-off and still owned by the family. it later went out of business, not long after an absolutely horrible rebrand.

they are probably just providing the windows drivers that their vendors already have for the components inside the hardware they’re selling.

amazon’s web site as a whole has always been shitty, going all the way back to when they just sold books.

iot is stripped-down ‘windows lite’ but they don’t sell that to the masses they’re trying to hoover-up data on, sling bullshit at, or trick into subscribing to stuff.

iot is excellent on the desktop or as a gamer. its existence is proof that none of the bullshit microsoft’s been peddling is actually needed in the os, and that crap actually hurts performance and stability.

one big cube won’t melt nearly as fast as several smaller ones, so your ‘beverage’ won’t get watered-down as much.

and yea. it is a silly item for aldi. might just be one of those “we’ll see if it sells or not” things. they often have odd things there that never come back.

he’s also the one that kept a supreme court seat unfilled for nearly the entire last year of obama’s second term.

then he rammed another confirmation (what would be dipshit’s third) through the senate at the very end of dipshit, episode 1, the lame duck weeks… in complete contradiction to what he did before.

which means, without this stain of humanity leading the senate, the make-up of the supreme court of the united states would be 5-4 the other way. dipshit would have never had a scRotus doing his bidding all this time.

i’ve salvaged enough older ddr3/ddr4 stuff and sata ssd to hopefully last until i see some newer stuff go through here destined for the recycle heap. but what i am short on is spinny hdd for more ‘‘archive’’ storage, i’m down to my last couple smaller hdd

updates, sure. let discover or gnome software do 'em.

my debian won’t break the system.

to install, though? i’d rather see exactly what’s going on. i don’t always want to bring in every tom, dick and recommend. i use aptitude.

it’s the most convenient, but i still use my winrar for some things, mainly some of the self-extractors i build and when i want recovery bits.